> I would wholeheartedly support legislation that forced professors to pay the same textbook fees as their students, and for departments to be required to cover

> I would wholeheartedly support legislation that forced professors to pay the same textbook fees as their students, and for departments to be required to cover the costs for scholarship students. What will happen is that universities will pass these costs to all students where now paying students will pay more. A better regulation will be encouraging and funding more open access materials that can be used and require public funding receivers to adopt them or decrease the funding and cap the tuition increases.